An Exploration of Shared Services Types in Higher Education

17th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2011, AMCIS 2011

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Miskon, Suraya ^a,b   Bandara, Wasana ^a   Fielt, Erwin ^a   Gable, Guy ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

archival analysis; case studies; Higher Education; shared services; Shared services types; typology

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ARCHIVAL ANALYSIS; CASE-STUDIES; CHANGING MARKETPLACES; EDUCATION MARKET; EDUCATION SECTORS; HIGH EDUCATIONS; SHARED SERVICE; SHARED SERVICE TYPE; TYPOLOGY;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 84914131019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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